His Eminence Johannes de Jong |
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Cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht Primate of the Netherlands |
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Jan de Jong (1953)
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Archdiocese | Utrecht |
Installed | 6 February 1936 |
Term ended | 8 September 1955 |
Predecessor | Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen |
Successor | Bernardus Johannes Alfrink |
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Ordination | 15 August 1908 |
Consecration | 12 September 1935 |
Created Cardinal | 18 February 1946 |
Rank | Cardinal Priest |
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Birth name | Johannes de Jong |
Born | 10 September 1885 Nes, Netherlands |
Died |
8 September 1955 (aged 69) Amersfoort, Netherlands |
Buried | St. Barbara's Cemetery Utrecht, Netherlands |
Nationality | Dutch |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Styles of Johannes de Jong |
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Reference style | His Eminence |
Spoken style | Your Eminence |
Informal style | Cardinal |
See | Utrecht |
Johannes de Jong (September 10, 1885 – September 8, 1955) was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1936 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
Johannes de Jong was born in Nes, a village on the island of Ameland, as the eldest of seven children of Jan de Jong, a baker, and his wife Trijntje Mosterman. After attending the minor seminary in Culemborg from 1898 to 1904, de Jong then studied at the Seminary of Rijsenburg for four years.
He was ordained to the priesthood on August 15, 1908, and further studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Angelicum in Rome, obtaining his doctorates in philosophy and theology.
De Jong did pastoral work in Amersfoort, including work with the Sisters of Mercy, until 1914, when he was made a professor at the Rijsenburg seminary on November 6. Becoming the seminary's rector on August 14, 1931, he was named a canon of the cathedral of Utrecht in 1933.